[Noisebridge-discuss] OT What should be a great free concert at CCRMA, Stanford, this Thursday: (fwd)

[Ben Mushol]

It was a stunning performance. I never thought I would use the word 
stunning to describe a musical performance but I had only imagined people 
manipulating sound in that way.

Speaking to some others in the audience I got the impression that creating 
audio textures and compositions of that sort may be common place for 
students of that program.

My impression after minimal exposure to IDM was if you took the D out and 
replaced it with an N for INM that would be the closest I could get to 
summarizing what was performed. Intelligent Noise Music.

After reading the program and synopsis of the pieces it appeared the 
orginating samples were also elegantly simple and everything I heard was 
the product of the composer's tools working on those samples. Although 
performed live the pieces were semi or fully composed with some elements 
of improvisation and the freedom for variation. One piece involved a 
performer in Belgium performing on a guiter fed live over the network to 
the sound engineers who crafted the audio output into the space. Any 
latency was part of the performance.

And all done apparently with the open source tools used by the CCRMA 
program which can easily be placed on any old laptop with minimal hardware 
resources compared to say an i7 macbook pro and Logic 9.

NegativeWobblyLand was also mindblowing and inspiring. Analog feedback 
generated live improvisational performance.

They are performing again next weekend in Berkely at a museum. I will post 
to list with the details when I find them for anyone who is interested.

It appears noisebridgers could build such devices as their "boopers" out 
of things like AM radios and any device with analog circuits and lastly I 
realized why I stopped liking jungle and drum n bass very much in 1997. As 
the genre evolved from what I considered breakbeat hardcore it didn't take 
the original sounds and "magic" with it.

Perhaps it is time to put the analog feedback back into breakbeat 
hardcore...

I strongly encourage anyone who enjoys that stuff to look into what CCRMA 
is doing and subscribe to their mailing lists. There is another student 
performance on the seventh.

Also free wine and stinky cheese... :P


  On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Joseph Brenner wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:21:18 -0800
> From: Joseph Brenner <doomvox at gmail.com>
> To: Ben Mushol <ben at sixgirls.org>
> Cc: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] [dorkbotsf-blabber] What should be a great
>     free concert at CCRMA, Stanford, this Thursday: (fwd)
> 
> CCMRA (pronounced 'karma') does indeed do some cool things on occasion
> (often in the direction of retro-classic-avant-garde electronic music,
> if that makes any sense to you, like 1960s mainframe beep-beep-boop
> computer music and so on).
>
> The negativland-wobbly team-up will no doubt be some choppy, funny
> electronic/sample-based music.   Don't know about the other
> performers, off hand.  Looks like a good event.
>
>
> Ben Mushol <ben at sixgirls.org> wrote:
>> Saw this in my own inbox but if it's posted another list I suspect it is
>> legit. I have no idea what the sound will be. This is the CCMRA I
>> sometimes manage to stumble out a few bullet points on.
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:52:54 -0800
>> From: Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: michael at michaelshiloh.com
>> To: Dorkbot-Blabber <dorkbotsf-blabber at dorkbot.org>
>> Subject: [dorkbotsf-blabber] What should be a great free concert at CCRMA,
>>     Stanford, this Thursday:
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [electronicmusic-152] CCRMA Concert, 12/1, 8pm
>> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:51:29 -0500
>> From: Bruno Ruviaro <bbttrr76 at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: electronicmusic-152 at meetup.com
>> To: electronicmusic-152 at meetup.com
>>
>> What better way to end the Fall quarter?
>>
>> https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/ccrma-concert-autumn-2011
>>
>> CCRMA performances by Kurt Werner, Dohi Moon, Bill Schottstaedt, and
>> Chris Chafe + Bruno Ruviaro + Bernardo Barros + Juan Parra
>>
>> Featuring special guests: Negativwobblyland (half of Negativland teaming
>> up with Wobbly, electronic musician from San Francisco)
>>
>> Thursday, December 1st, 2011, 8pm - CCRMA Stage
>>
>> FREE ADMISSION
>>
>> - - -
>>
>> WHAT: CCRMA Autumn Concert
>> WHEN: Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 8pm
>> WHERE: CCRMA Stage (3rd floor)
>> The Knoll building
>> 660 Lomita Drive
>> Stanford, CA 94305
>>
>> FREE ADMISSION
>>
>> Map: http://goo.gl/EyOvA
>>
>> Parking is free at Stanford after 4pm.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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